LERA Wins 2021 Best of Practice Award for Structural Engineering
We are proud to announce that LERA Consulting Structural Engineers has won 2021 Best of Practice Award for Northeast Structural Engineering Firm in the Architect’s Newspaper’s new awards program.
LERA Consulting Structural Engineers (LERA) is a M/WBE structural engineering firm providing services to architects, owners, contractors, and developers. Throughout our nearly century-long history, LERA has cultivated a peerless reputation for both conceiving and achieving innovative structural solutions for complex projects featuring unconventional, gravity-defying forms, daring architectural visions with ambitious yet constructible and economical structural designs.
Jury Feedback:
“Describing complex mathematical impossibilities of architectural and artistic form with lyrical grace and a lightness of being, all while mentoring and empowering the collective consciousness of the studio: these are the characteristics of Best of Practice for a structural engineering firm. LERA’s breadth of impact, both within practice, within discipline, and within a portfolio of excellence elevated their submission to worthy recognition.” —David Rubin
Image: Temple University Charles Library, Philadelphia, PA
Our portfolio includes a wide variety of unique and award-winning designs for large-scale developments and new buildings, as well as renovations to existing and historic structures. Our services include complete structural designs, feasibility studies, peer reviews, value engineering, computational design, blast analysis, forensic consulting, and special inspections.
Image: CUMC Roy & Diana Vagelos Education Center, New York, NY
Image: Lotte World Tower, Seoul, South Korea; PNB 118, Kaula Lumpur, Malaysia; 2 Murray Road, Hong Kong, China; Lodha World Towers, Mumbai, India
Image: 4 World Trade Center, New York, NY
Image: NYU Langone Health Kimmel Pavilion, New York, NY; CUMC Aaron Diamond Aids Research Center, New York, NY; CUNY Advanced Science Research Center, New York, NY
Image: NYU Langone Health Kimmel Pavilion, SPOT, New York, NY; NYU Langone Health Kimmel Pavilion, The Moon's Eyelid, New York, NY; James Clar, The World Never Ends (Gravitational Collapse), New York, NY; Richard Serra 'London Cross Pavilion', Bedford, NY; James Clar, Foreigner, Shanghai, China
Image: Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, New York, NY; Union Square North Pavilion, New York, NY; Brooklyn Bridge Park, New York, NY
At LERA, career growth, mentoring and longevity at the firm drives the culture. Working at LERA embodies collaboration, communication, creativity, dedication, community and spirit. Each Partner at LERA has over 20 years of experience at the firm and every new office location has been facilitated by a career engineer at the firm, creating growth from within for the firm by offering business acumen with engineering excellence.
LERA is dedicated to numerous industry organizations, creating leadership opportunities at all career levels and ensuring a diverse and inclusive future engineering workforce by increasing awareness of the industry.
LERA is part of SE2050 issued by the Carbon Leadership Forum. This comprehensive program facilitates substantive embodied carbon reductions in the design and construction of structural systems.
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Headquartered in New York City, LERA has offices in Mumbai, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Seoul.
